商品簡介
Ten articles reprinted and often translated from publication in scholarly journals or other anthologies or collections consider first magic and then divination as defined and distinguished by Medieval Islamic writers and modern scholars. Their topics include beliefs in spirits among the pre-Islamic Arabs, the roots of Arabic-Islamic occultism, the theory of magic in healing, the rod of Moses in Arabic magic, the decipherment of Arabic talismans, whether Islamic seals were magical or practical, weather forecasting, Islamic geomancy and a 13th-century divinatory device, annotated translations of three fatwas on astrology, and the role of the astrologer in Medieval Islamic society. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dr Emilie Savage-Smith is Senior Research Associate at The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK
